The Alone Sword

40,000 years from now, aliens we can scarce imagine will descend on earth.

Finding only the ruins of humanity, they will use retro-psychosomnal recall to piece together a record of our dreams.

In staying to their religious custom these invaders build a monument to a shared dream-- something they found that they did not understand.

This is the story of that monument.

This is a very complete little h'omage to Zelda I, with which I am very satisfied. Unlike most of my other Flash games, this wasn't made for a time-constrained competition so I had more time to flesh it out. At the same time, it's small.

I remember working on some of the music on my netbook in my sisters car in Grande Prairie, a funny memory.

Each screen is hand-drawn, which was a bit painstaking.

There is a prototype download below; I forgot about this completely until I put this site up, but basically it's the game but with black-and-white graphics. I didn't try to play very far in the prototype so I'm not sure how complete it is, but it's interesting to me.

Made and released in 2011.

Source code released 2026-02-22.

Play in Browser (Flash via ruffle.rs)
Download (.swf)
Download Prototype (.swf)
Official Site (maybe a bit broken)
Source code (Flash)

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